Shoe-shining machine



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APPLICATION FILED SEPT.25. 1920.

PatentedJune 6,1922.

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L. CHAMBERS. sHoE SHINING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25| 1920.

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To all w hom 'it may concer/n Be it known that I, LEE CHAMBERS, a citizen of thel United States, residing at Bastrop, in the county of Bastrop and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Shoe-Shining Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in boot and shoe polishing machines and more specifically to that type of machine wherein the front, sides and heel of a shoe are polished simultaneously.

Une of the objects of my invention is the provision of a shoe polishing machine including the usual stand and foot supports and novel means rotatably mounted on the supports for cleaning and polishing shoes.

Another object of my invention relates to a Shoe polishing machine including the usual stand and foot supports and novel oscillating means carried by said supports and operable from within the stand.

A further and veryimportant object of my vinvention consists in the construction of a shoe polishing machine which will be simple in construction, of comparatively few parts and therefor inexpensive and cheap to manufacture, and both easily and efliciently operated by unskilled labor.

With these objects in View and others which will become apparent as the nature and purpose of my invention are revealed, I have shown but one embodiment of my improved machine in the following drawings, wherein: .l

F lgure 1 is a perspective view partly broken away to show the operating mechanism.

Fig.'2 is a plan view of Fig. `1.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation.

Fig. 4L is a side elevation.

Similar numerals in the specification referring to corresponding parts on the drawing, numeral 1 designates. a base or stand khaving a front cut away body 2 and a rearl casing 3 which `contains the driving mechanism to be hereinafter described.

A pair of supports designated 4 are permanently secured as at 5 to the .front part Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 6, 1922 Application filed September 25, 1920.

Serial No. 412,678.

ef the body, foot rests 6 being permanently fastened as at 7 to the top 9 of the said supports. -The supports are preferably f cut away as at 10 and each top has the usual front or toe portion 11 and heel 12 to which the foot rest is secured. i

The supports 1 are transversely bored neartheir-base as at 13 to provide bearings for oppositely mounted stub shafts 14, 15 which extend outwardly from said supports and carry on their outer ends rock arms 16, 17, respectively. y

The rock arms 16 and 17 extend` upwardly from said outer ends of the shafts 14, 15 and taper slightly as at 18 toward their outer ends 19 which are apertured as at 20 to receive the forward ends 20a of rearwardly extending pitmen. The pitmen designated 22 are slightly bent as at 23 and extend rearwardly to eccentrics 2% on opposite sides of the stand, the said eccentrics being operated by the transverse crank shaft 25.

Pitmen 22b are connected to the cranks 25a of the crank shaft and at their forward ends to the rock arms 16. It will be ob-` served from Fig. 1 that the pitmen are set to oscillate the rack armsy and stub shafts in opposite directions for the purpose as will presently appear.

A drive shaft 26 having the usual operating wheel. and handle at one side of the stand, is provided with a sprocket 2T and chain 28 which drives a sprocket 29 on the crank shaft 25. It will therefore be seen that a comparatively simple and expedient operating means is provided for communicating rocking movement to the stub shafts. n

On opposite sides of the supports 1, I provide upwardly extending arms 30, 30a having collars 31 keyed on the rotatable stub shafts. It will be readily apparent that the arms 30, 30LL will rock in opposite directions when the stub shafts are oscillated. Vertical attaching members 32 are connected to the upper terminals of the arms 30, 30a as at 33, a felt strip or similar cleaningor polishing strip being connected to the lattaching members 32. As shown in Fig. 1,

the felt strip extends along the sides and around the heel of the shoe so that as the arm 30, 30 are rocked, the' strip will clean or polish the sides of the shoe.

The arms 2l are bent forwardly as at 3a terminating in eyes 34 for the reception of hooks 35 attached to one end of a front cleaning or polishing strip of felt or the like which is trained over the front portion or vamp of the shoe. The opposite end of the last named strip is secured to a spring like attaching member 36 made*r secure as at 37 to the base 2. It willbe seen that as the arms 21 are operated they will draw the front cleaning `strip upwardly and down wardly over the vamp of the shoe. The upwardly and oppositely extending arms 30', 30 keyed on the stub shaft arelikewise operated by the pitmen and thereby draw the felt strip along the sides of the shoe simultaneous with the `front polishing operation above described.

While 'I have shown and* described but a single form of my invention, it is `to be understood that it is capable of'various modiiications. lChanges therefor in the construction and arrangement of partsmay be made which do not depart from the spirit and scope ofthe invention as disclosed' in the subject matter being claimed.

` Vlhat Iclaim is:

1. In a shoe polishing machine ofthe class described, a stand, foot supports on the stand, horizontal shafts rotatable in `said supports, upwardly extending .arms keyed on said shafts, polishing strips attached to said arms, and means for rocking said arms.

2. In a shoe polishing machine of the class described, a stand, foot supports onthe stand, horizontal shafts rotatable withrespect to said supports, upwardly extending arms keyed on said shafts and on opposite si'des of said supports, pelishing strips `attached to said arms, and means for rocking said arms.

3. In a shoe polishing machine of the class described, a stand,.foot supports on the stand, horizontal, rotatable `pairs of shafts journalled in .saidv supports, rock arms `carried `by said shafts, means for actuating said nook arms, upwardly extending arms keyed on the shafts, attaching-members connected to said upwardlyextending arms, and polishing strips secured to sai'dattaching members, and trained along the` sides and heel of a shoe whereby said strip is drawn forward and backwardl during the actuation of said shafts andthe arms carried thereby.

4L'. :In a shoe polishing `machine of the class described, a stand, foot supports mounted at the front of the' stand, transverse pairs of shafts journalled in said supports, rock `arms mounted on one `end of said shafts, arms carried on the opposite outer ends of said transverse shafts and having eyes formed at the free ends thereof, polishing strips extending over the front portion of the supports and having one end attached to the eye of a complemental arm and the other end to a spring connecting said stand, a'ndmeans for operating said shafts through said rock -armsfor the actuation of said polishing strips.

5. In a shoe polishing machine of the class described, a stand, foot supports carried." bythe stand, transversely disposed pairs of rock shafts independently journalled in said supports, upwardly extending arms keyed to certain of` theshafts, polishing strips attached to vsaid arms, upwardly extending arms keyed on the outer of said shafts and having the free ends thereof extending forwardly of said supports, other polishing strips attached to said upwardly extending arms, and` means for operating said shafts and arms to effect the actuation of all of said polishing strips.`

6. In a shoe shining machine of the class described, a stand, a pair of supports carriedv thereby, .bearings i in said supports, stub shafts rotatable independently in said bearings, upwardly extending arms keyed to said shafts and rotatable therewith, polishing strips trained along the sides AandA rear of said supports and attached to said arms, rock arms on the outer ends of said shafts, a transverse drive shaft withinsaid stand', a crank axle, driven thereby, eccentrics on the opposite ends of said crank axle and pitmen connecting said eccentrics and the cranks ofsaid axle for operating the rock arms, stub shafts, and upwardly extending arms for the actuation of polishing strips for the purpose specified.

7. VIn a shoe shining machine of the class described, a stand, supports carried thereby, bearings in the supports, stub shafts rotatable in said bearings, upwardly extending arms keyed onv said shafts,polishing strips trained along the sides and'heel of said supports and attached to said arms, upwardly and rearwardly extending rock arms on the free ends of said stub shafts, pitmen connected at their forward ends to said rock arms and at their opposite ends to a transverse crank shaft, `a drive shaft, and meansfor communicatingmotion from said" drive shaft to said crankshaft for the purpose specified.

S. In a shoe shining machine of thel class described, a stand, supports carried thereby, bearings in said supports, independently rotatable stub shafts insaid bearings, rock arms on said shafts, upwardly extending armsrkeyed on certainof. said shafts and provided with' polishing strips trained along the sides andrheel of the supports, similar arms carried on the other of said shaftsand extending forwardly of said supports and formed with an eye at the free ends thereof,

upwardly and downwardly trained polishconnecting said ecoentrics and crank axle to ing strips having one of their ends attached the above mentioned rock arms, and means to the eyes of said last mentioned arms and, to actuate said drive shaft to simultaneously 10 their opposite ends to springs connecting aotuate the polishing strips.

said stand, a drive shaft within the easing, In testimony whereof, I affix my signature a crank axle driven thereby, eccentrics on hereto.

the opposite ends of said crank axle, pitmen LEE CHAMBERS 

